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Typical competitive thinking from everyone here. Just see the Nobel Prize as a little gem alongside the road to greater goals. Focus on the work to come instead
by dna_polymerase 9y ago
Typical competitive thinking from everyone here. Just see the Nobel Prize as a little gem alongside the road to greater goals. Focus on the work to come instead of arguing about a procedure older than any human alive.
It doesn't matter who gets a shiny medal, the only thing that matters is that we push science to next level. To help our understanding of the world and to help the people.
- alkonaut 9y agoAlso: it doesn't matter who picks up the shiny medal, what matters is also that science, like sports or movies, also has a couple of hours of glamour. The Oscars are also a charade, but it makes the whole industry a bit more magical and glamorous. The glamour and attention might attract that next Curie or Einstein to science, in which case it was all worth it.